许其正：寻根

他匆匆忙忙地奔忙着

回到他的故乡寻找

往祖宗牌位寻找

询问乡人寻找

拿锄头掘地寻找

却怎么也寻找不到他的根

他仍不放弃希望

更用尽心力不停地寻找

寻找得像一只无头苍蝇

寻找得筋疲力尽

还是寻找不到

最后他在他的脉管里

找到了答案——

原来血液告诉了他

根就叫DNA

Root-Seeking　　Hsu ChiCheng

He busies himself running around

He goes back to his native place to seek

To seek from within his ancestors’ memorial tablets

To seek from his native people

To seek by digging into the ground

But he fails to find his root

Still he does not abandon his hope

He is on the seeking without sparing any effort

Running around like a chicken with its head cut off

He is exhausted

Still he fails to find it

Finally he gets the answer

From within his vein —

His blood tells him the answer

The root is DNA

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